An administrative assistant at a logistics firm receives an urgent phone call from someone pretending to be the company's head of IT security. The caller claims that a critical system update is being deployed immediately and requests the assistant's login credentials to prevent their workstation from being locked out of the network.
Identify the specific type of social engineering attack illustrated by this scenario.
23 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Cyber security threats, covering Social engineering and Malicious code (malware). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.